Safari, PDFs, and Preview.

Alright, so Acrobat Reader was crashing safari, so I uninstalled it (TOTAL piece of junk anyways, 800mb for a pdf reader? Please.), and now when I go to a PDF in safari, it just stays at that grey window with the spinning wheel. I'd LIKE it to use preview to open it or something (Wouldn't that make sense??), or prompt to download or something...
Any way to make that happen, or at least fall back to whatever the non-acrobat reader method was?
Thanks,
-Dave

Hi,
Safari is handling PDF's files very well.
Select in the Safari Preferences>Security>Activate Plugins
Or if you like to open PDF's NOT in Safari but in Preview than look for a PDF file you already got and select it ones, now get info, select OPEN WITH and select PREVIEW. Close window again.
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